For those who haven't seen the massacre of Saturday's Torpid's race, I thought I'd post it for good humor. Yes, that is me getting tossed into the water by a huge mass of 8 male rowers moving at quite a quick pace. Yes, it hurt for roughly 6 weeks afterwards. Oh... and yes, we did win.
Cheers!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter!
Made a fabulous Easter lunch today with some friends. Pretty impressive for whipping everything together with very limited kitchenware. We can't say it looked like it was presentable on a white tablecloth, but it was DEFINITELY delicious!
A few pictures:
In other news, Oxford is BEAUTIFUL. The weather is to die for. I don't know how I'm possibly going to get ANY work done here this term! It's 70s every day, no humidity and mild clouds. Seriously... I'm going to have to learn to work outside or I may be entirely screwed!
Flight booked for home on Monday, June 27th. Bittersweet, really. I'm sad to even think about leaving Oxford and everyone here but also excited to be back in the states. Can't believe I only have one more year at Bryn Mawr, either. Everything has gone so fast! Graduate school will be upon me sooner than I know it.
Happy Easter!
Made a fabulous Easter lunch today with some friends. Pretty impressive for whipping everything together with very limited kitchenware. We can't say it looked like it was presentable on a white tablecloth, but it was DEFINITELY delicious!
A few pictures:
In other news, Oxford is BEAUTIFUL. The weather is to die for. I don't know how I'm possibly going to get ANY work done here this term! It's 70s every day, no humidity and mild clouds. Seriously... I'm going to have to learn to work outside or I may be entirely screwed!
Flight booked for home on Monday, June 27th. Bittersweet, really. I'm sad to even think about leaving Oxford and everyone here but also excited to be back in the states. Can't believe I only have one more year at Bryn Mawr, either. Everything has gone so fast! Graduate school will be upon me sooner than I know it.
Happy Easter!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Mom and Aunt Di recently came to visit me in merry ole England and we did our own little adventure around Great Britain, hitting Oxford, Stonehenge and Salisbury, Dublin, Edinburgh and finally, London! It was a whirlwind 7 days of travel, but very fun and full of fairly decent weather! True, Dublin was a bit rainy and windy and Edinburgh had its random rain shower, but all in all, not bad for the region! It was a bit different traveling with mom and aunt di, seeing as I'm quite used to staying hostels... what are these things called hotels and bed and breakfasts?! Shocking! Anyhow, after becoming accustomed to those things (and very welcome amenities), we became savvy in our traveling and managed to cover a lot of ground in a very short amount of time!
Here are some pictures of the journey!
Here are some pictures of the journey!
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| Salisbury Cathedral |
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| Salisbury Cathedral |
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| Beer! |
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| Navigating Dublin |
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| Guinness factory! |
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| Glendalough Monastery |
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| Top of a Dublin 'mountain' - Irish countryside |
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| Edinburgh castle |
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| Chilly in Scotland! |
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| Behind the National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| London decorated for the Royal Wedding! |
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Sorry for the lack of posts - traveling was nuts and jampacked with activities!
So, as I said before, Madrid was an awesome city.. apart from having my wallet nicked, which cost me 150 euros. No fun at all, but oh well, guess my luck had run out in Spain after 4 cities. I came back to Oxford for a day after Madrid, regrouped, did some laundry and then headed to London to stay with 12 other friends at Eddie's house to watch the Oxford v. Cambridge famous boat race. Essentially, everyone was packed around the river in London for four hours, drinking and having a good time, only to watch a race that we saw approximately 20 seconds of... but it was worth it because Oxford kicked Cambridge's butt by a longshot! After the race we all prepared to head off to Berlin in the very, very early morning.
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BERLIN
A very cool city, but a bit odd because it was so new due to the destruction of most of the buildings during the second world war. The Reichtag (government building) was beautiful, as was the large Berlin dome. Our hostel was right near museum island which was packed with awesome museums of every sort. I visited two parts of the Berlin Wall as well as quite a few museums and historical sites around the town. Berlin also had interesting sections to it, such as the art district, which was full of graffiti and rundown looking buildings. It had a lot of character. I had my first LITRE of beer there, called a Stein, which was as big as my head. On our last night in Berlin, everyone went out and stayed up all night before heading to Amsterdam, which made for a very comedic traveling experience.
AMSTERDAM
Our group went from 12 people to 9 as we made our way to the Netherlands. Amsterdam is one of my top three favorite cities, hands down. Not only are the buildings beautiful and very unique, but the canals really give the city a surreal feel. There are canals absolutely everywhere you look (more than in Venice) and they make the city picturesque. Amsterdam was one of the most walkable cities I've ever been in and was chock-full of interesting neighborhoods. I did indeed visit the Red Light District (several times, in fact) and it wasn't too bad - a lot of bar life revolves around that area, so it's a pretty busy region. Some other cool places included the floating flower market, the main square with a palace and monument (where I saw a MASSIVE pillow fight occur...), central train station, Anne Frank museum and many, many bars. We were really lucky for the majority of our trip because the weather was so mild, even in windy Amsterdam.
So, as I said before, Madrid was an awesome city.. apart from having my wallet nicked, which cost me 150 euros. No fun at all, but oh well, guess my luck had run out in Spain after 4 cities. I came back to Oxford for a day after Madrid, regrouped, did some laundry and then headed to London to stay with 12 other friends at Eddie's house to watch the Oxford v. Cambridge famous boat race. Essentially, everyone was packed around the river in London for four hours, drinking and having a good time, only to watch a race that we saw approximately 20 seconds of... but it was worth it because Oxford kicked Cambridge's butt by a longshot! After the race we all prepared to head off to Berlin in the very, very early morning.
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| Boatrace fun |
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| Go Oxford! |
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| All of the press covering the big race... (look to the far top-left to see how much Oxford is winning by!) |
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BERLIN
A very cool city, but a bit odd because it was so new due to the destruction of most of the buildings during the second world war. The Reichtag (government building) was beautiful, as was the large Berlin dome. Our hostel was right near museum island which was packed with awesome museums of every sort. I visited two parts of the Berlin Wall as well as quite a few museums and historical sites around the town. Berlin also had interesting sections to it, such as the art district, which was full of graffiti and rundown looking buildings. It had a lot of character. I had my first LITRE of beer there, called a Stein, which was as big as my head. On our last night in Berlin, everyone went out and stayed up all night before heading to Amsterdam, which made for a very comedic traveling experience.
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| Relaxing in front of the Berliner Dome |
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| All 12 of us in Berlin! |
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| With our Steins! |
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| Group hug in front of the Reichtag |
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| The Reichtag |
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| Part of the Berlin Wall |
AMSTERDAM
Our group went from 12 people to 9 as we made our way to the Netherlands. Amsterdam is one of my top three favorite cities, hands down. Not only are the buildings beautiful and very unique, but the canals really give the city a surreal feel. There are canals absolutely everywhere you look (more than in Venice) and they make the city picturesque. Amsterdam was one of the most walkable cities I've ever been in and was chock-full of interesting neighborhoods. I did indeed visit the Red Light District (several times, in fact) and it wasn't too bad - a lot of bar life revolves around that area, so it's a pretty busy region. Some other cool places included the floating flower market, the main square with a palace and monument (where I saw a MASSIVE pillow fight occur...), central train station, Anne Frank museum and many, many bars. We were really lucky for the majority of our trip because the weather was so mild, even in windy Amsterdam.
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| All 9 of us! |
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| In a famous Dutch clog! |
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| In the middle of Amsterdam's biggest square, there was a massive impromptu pillow fight... |
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| Full of canals |
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| Making our way through the city |
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| Flower market |
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